Word: humanistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...necessity." In an address to the Darwin Centennial Celebration at the University of Chicago last week, the grandson of Darwin's friend and defender, Biologist Thomas Huxley, went on to describe what he called a "religion" of the future-although it sounded a lot like the old humanist faith of the past. This "belief-system, framework of values, ideology, call it what you will," said Huxley, will have "no need or room for the supernatural." It will be evolutionary, because "the earth was not created, it evolved. So did all the animals and plants that inhabit it, including...
Blood on a Shirt. Gemello Minore has other shocks for Monsignor Meredith. The Nerone case is a web only sinful men could spin. There is Aldo Meyer, a Jewish doctor and humanist who plays a reluctant Judas to Nerone. There is Nerone's mistress who bore his bastard son and who nightly kneels before his bloody, bullet-torn shirt. The boy, now a troubled adolescent, is himself the prey in a vicious, sensual tug of war between a neurotic drug-taking contessa and a homosexual English painter. Without Author West's innate good taste, these characters might...
...other workshop-leaders in several important particulars. In the first place, the Riesman group is resolved to draw students of varying interests and aptitudes. Their hope is to bring together (in six workshops, with a total capacity of 48 people) "the physicist and the economist, the astronomer and the humanist, the historian and the classicist." In addition to having this interdisciplinary character, the Riesman workshops will differ from the others in seeking out a variety of intelligence-levels. Whereas most of the tutorial-type workshops will be geared to "exceptional students," Riesman stresses that his group wants the average freshman...
...time the bomb went off-former Chief of Operations Adolf Heusinger, who survived both the bomb and arrest in Operation Thunderstorm to become inspector general of the new Bundeswehr-signed an appeal to be read to all troops. He praised the men of July 20 for "their Christian-humanist sense of responsibility," added that "their spirit and their attitudes are our models." It is now defense-force doctrine that a German officer may break his oath of loyalty when his commander in chief sets himself above...
...arts as in the arts of technology. For such achievements, Julius Stratton can claim major credit. No narrow specialist-he left Cambridge in 1923 to study French literature at the universities of Grenoble and Toulouse, still refreshes himself by reading French and German history in the original-Stratton is humanist as well as scientist. Under President (1930-48) Karl Compton, who first aimed M.I.T. toward real scientific eminence, Stratton taught electrical engineering and physics, won wide respect for his wartime radar research and later for his administrative abilities in organizing the institute's Research Laboratory of Electronics. Under President...